Improvement in hoop-skirts



G. W. HUBBELL.v

l Hoop-Skirts.

No.l47,399, Y Patentedfemwnam.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE XV. HUBBELL, OF DERBY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF- AND JOHN T. HILLIIOUSE, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN HOOP-SKIRTS.

Specification forming part ofLitters Patent No. 147,399., dated February 10,1874;`applic ation filed December 27, 1373.

To all whom it may concern." C, (represented in Fig. 3 as two,) longer than Be it known that I, GEORGE W. HUBBELL. the other portions, l), which causes the porot' Derby, in the county of New Haven and tion C to full up, while the remainder will be State of Connecticut, have invented a new Imflat, like the ordinary tape. -This tape is cut proveinent in Hoop-Skirts; and I do hereby to thc usual lengths, and the springs pass over declare thc following, when taken in conneeone surface of the tape, preferably inside, as tion with the accompanying drawings and the seen in Fig. l; then in the fulled portions, at -letters of reference marked thereon, to bc a the point where the spring passes, I place a full, clear, and exact description of the same, clasp, a-s seen in Fig. 2,'and close the clasp and which said ldrawings constitute part of and tape over the spring, so as to firmly sethis specitication, and represent, incure the two together, the tape denoted in Figure l, a front view of one of the tapes solid black, Fig. 2. The fullness allows this with the springs attached; Fig. 2, a vertical to be done, and when done, the fullness is section on line .fr x, enlarged; and in Fig. 3, a taken up, so as to leave the whole surface of front view of a tape with two fulled sections. the tape flat, as in Fig. l.

'lhis invention relates to an improvement in In tapes with two or more fulled portions, as the manufacture of hoop-skirts and tapes for in Fig. 3, the clasps maybe alternated with good the same, which are applica-ble to other pnreffect and less fullness in the sections, as only .poses and the invention consists in a skirt so much fullness is required as will be taken formed from a series of springs or hoops and up by the clasp. tapes, having one or more sections lon gitudi I claim as my inventionnall y fulled, the springs lying upon one side A skirt formed of a series of springs or hoops ofthe tapes, and secured thereto by ametallic 'and tapes, having one or more longitudinal clasp upon the opposite side, closing the fullest sections fulled, as described, the springs lying' portion at the point of attachment over the upon one surface of the tape, and secured spring, as more fully hereinafter described. thereto by metallic clasps upon the opposite By the term skirt7 I wish to be understood side, closing the fullest portion over the spring, as embracing skirts, bustles, and other artisubstantially as specified. cles formed in similar manner. v, Y

A is the tape; B, the springs, more or less GEORGE XM HUBBELL' in number, arranged relatively to each other Witnesses: in the usual manner. The tape is woven with I. H. DooLrTTLE, the warps in one or more longitudinal sections, EDSON L. BRYANT. 

